Sorting donations at a Radical Jewelry
Makeover event in Virginia.
You Can Take Part In a Radical Jewelry Makeover!
Download RJM Donation Form (PDF)
Donate your old, broken, unstylish or unloved jewelry and see it transformed into radically new jewelry at Penland School of Crafts this summer.
Radical Jewelry Makeover is a fun, informed project that uses donated jewelry and a variety of design strategies to create an alternative to traditional mining practices and jewelry production. It provides an opportunity to address the social and environmental impacts of irresponsible mining and focuses attention on the skills and creativity of metalsmiths.
This was a donation to the Viriginia
Radical Jewelry Makeover.
The fourth "edition" of Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM), Ethical Metalsmiths' traveling community mining, recycling, redesign and education project, will take place in Penland, North Carolina, from June 21 to July 2, 2009. Metalsmithing students in the workshop (taught by Susie Ganch and Christina Miller) will transform donations into exciting new jewelry, some of which will be available for sale, and the proceeds will benefit Ethical Metalsmiths.
This is how it works. Everyone is invited to "mine" their homes, "uncovering" gold, silver, and other jewelry, that is no longer used and deposit (donate) their "lode." All donors will receive discount coupons and the discount value (max. $50) will be determined by the precious material content of the donations. Your coupon can be applied to the purchase of a piece of redesigned jewelry.
To take part, please fill out the PDF donation form and include it inside a bag/box/wheelbarrow with your jewelry. Make sure you cut off the bottom portion of the form and keep it for your records!
This is the same piece, elaborately
made over by
participant
Kathleen Kennedy.
Download RJM Donation form (PDF)
You may deliver donations to the school or send them to:
Penland School of Crafts
C/o Adam Whitney
PO Box 37
67 Dora's Trail
Penland, NC 28765
Finished jewelry will be exhibited and sold at Penland on on Thursday July 2, from 10 AM - 6 PM. RJM "makeover" jewelry will also be for sale online beginning July 20, 2009 (details about accessing the online RJM-STORE will be available soon.)
Take part in RADICAL JEWELRY MAKEOVER IV by donating jewelry!
Ethical Metalsmiths was formed for the purpose of stimulating demand for responsibly sourced materials as an investment in the future, and stands for social responsibility, a healthy environment and materials that are consistent with these values.
To learn more about precious metal mining issues start here:
www.EthicalMetalsmiths.org
www.Earthworksaction.org
www.NoDirtyGold.org
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